Requisition ID: 274980 

•  Relocation Authorized: None 
• Telework Type: Full-Time Office/Project 
• Work Location: Perth, WA 

Bechtel Mining and Metals is seeking an experienced Purchasing Specialist with proven communication capabilities to join our project team in Perth.  

What We Offer:

There are many reasons why choosing to join Bechtel is one of the best career decisions you will ever make. In addition to working with talented, dedicated people and having the opportunity to play an integral role in stimulating and challenging local and international projects, Bechtel is committed to offering you the benefits and resources to live a healthy life. With a market aligned salary package and annual discretionary performance bonus scheme in place, employee wellbeing is also at the centre of our business – promoted through our strong health and safety focus and private health cover including access to a leading employee assistance program.

About the Role:

As Purchasing Specialist, you will perform purchasing duties including bidder prequalification, bidder lists, bid solicitation, bid analysis, negotiation and commitment of purchase orders. You will also complete administration of purchase orders following commitments involving high monetary expenditure or risk, engineered technical specifications, or supplementary commercial conditions. 

Responsibilities will include:

• Develop and prepare project master purchases pro-forma forms, including legal and commercial terms and conditions to be included in purchase documents on project commitments.
• Reviews prime contract terminology and transfers applicable legal and commercial terms into the pro-forma documents.
•  Prepares, maintains, and monitors project bidders lists, prequalifies bidders, forms and issues bid packages, prepares commercial bid summary and recommendation letter, establishes files, and controls all incoming/outgoing correspondence, and ensures input is received from all procurement functions and other operational groups.
• Participate in the planning, work hour calculations and budgeting as it relates to project purchasing activities.
• Monitor suppliers’ performance for conformance to commercial terms including activities by engineering and other in-house functions to ensure compliance with the order terms.
• Review and develop other commercial and technical data prepared by Engineering, Construction, Finance, Logistics, Insurance, Tax and other procurement functional groups including Customer and inputs suitable terminology into pro-forma documents.
• Form, issue, and administer purchase orders. Communicates with suppliers to achieve required service and meet project needs.
• Directs negotiations in the commitment of purchases, following review and approval of the proposed negotiated plan by the designated supervisor.
•  Other duties as designated.

What You Bring:

•    Proficiency and experience in all phases of procurement including knowledge in the formation and administration of purchase orders through the several steps of and skill in communicating effectively with suppliers.
•    Proficiency in the administration of commitments, monitoring supplier performance, negotiation, backcharge procedures, and the resolution of claims and disputes.
•    Knowledge in Digital Supply Chain System (DSCS) Purchasing Module to perform purchasing activities.
•    Skilled in working with and communicating effectively both orally and in writing in English with various stakeholders.
•    Knowledge of international commercial conditions of buying as well as international suppliers.

Working Rights in Australia without employer sponsorship are required. 

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Why Choose Bechtel?

At Bechtel, we know that exceptional people deliver our customers’ projects—projects with a purpose that create a lasting positive legacy in the communities where we live and work. Just as we are committed to helping our customers achieve their visions, we are committed to offering the best people in the industry—people like you—with rewarding, challenging, and flexible long-term careers. Outstanding professionals are needed on projects that create jobs and grow economies; improve the resiliency of the world’s infrastructure; connect communities to resources and opportunities; get us closer to net zero; tackle critical environmental challenges to protect people and the planet; and accelerate progress to make the world a cleaner, greener, safer place.
 

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Shaping tomorrow together

Bechtel is one of the most respected global engineering, construction, and project management companies. Together with our customers, we deliver landmark projects that foster long-term progress and economic growth. Since 1898, we’ve completed more than 25,000 extraordinary projects across 160 countries on all seven continents. We operate through five global businesses: Infrastructure; Nuclear, Security & Environmental; Energy; Mining & Metals; and Manufacturing & Technology. Our company and our culture are built on more than a century of leadership and a relentless adherence to our values, the core of which are safety, quality, ethics, and integrity. These values are what we believe, what we expect, what we deliver, and what we live.  
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Bechtel is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, national origin, disability, citizenship status (except as authorized by law), protected veteran status, genetic information, and any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.

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